On a Castle Hill in Kryčaū there is a modern St. Nicholas temple which looks enough simple and resembles rather a house rebuilt in the church.

A castle raised here already in the fourteen century at the site of a city court. In fourteen ten it was visited by the grand prince of Lithuania Vitaūt and in sixteen sixty-four by the grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland Yan Kazimir Vaza. The castle was a strategic object and important military units were often situated here. In addition to five towers, wooden walls and a big ditch with a billow, there were household buildings, an arsenal, a well, a shelter in the event of siege in the castle. The ancient St. Nicholas temple was situated in the castle. After the abolishment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and joining of the Belarusian lands to the Russian Empire, the castle became needless and till the beginning of the nineteenth century fell to absolute desolation. As for the St. Nicholas church, till eighteen thirty-seven there was a church of Saint Elias in this building. Then a new building was placed for the church and the old one was altered for the church in the name of Saint Nicholas. It wasn't the last rebuilding of the long-suffering church. Just another took place in the twentieth century. After it the temple reached our days in permanent state. Foundations and vaults of castle buildings partly remained on the castle hill.

Publication date: 16.06.2017.

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